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Rock me to sleep / by E. Mack.
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- Format:
- Musical score
- Author/Creator:
- Mack, Edward, 1826-1882.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Songs with piano.
- Lullabies.
- Genre:
- Songs with piano.
- Songs.
- Scores.
- Physical Description:
- 1 score (5 pages) : illustrations ; 34 cm
- Contained In:
- Keffer Collection of Sheet Music.
- Other Title:
- Backward, turn backward, oh time in your flight.
- Rock me to sleep, Mother.
- Place of Publication:
- New York (538 Broadway, New York) : S.T. Gordon, [1861]
- Notes:
- Song; for voice and piano.
- Verses 4-6 printed as text on p. 5.
- First line of text: Backward, turn backward, oh time in your flight.
- Closing line of text repeated in each stanza: Rock me to sleep, Mother.
- Illustration: a woman with a guitar sitting at a candlelit table; in the background is a scene of a mother and a baby.
- Engraver of music noted at bottom of p. 5 as "Porter".
- OCLC:
- 83110546
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